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Spelman College Receives Largest Single Gift to HBCU

Insight Into Diversity

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). Of the $100 million, $75 million will go to endowed scholarships to attract future students while removing financial barriers, according to the institution.

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. It later became a free-standing organization that has become focused on supporting and accrediting faith-based institutions. including college and university counselors.

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Can—and Should—Colleges Educate the Whole Person?

Inside Higher Ed

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?

Inside Higher Ed

Model clearly organized descriptive and argumentative writing on particular topics. However, if this tool is to live up to its potential, it must mine the proprietary databases in which serious scholarship resides. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Provide first drafts of course syllabi.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

And when fall grades will be determined, and by whom, have been open questions at both the New School and UC—which is particularly worrisome to students who rely on grade point averages to maintain scholarships and U.S. There’s new union organizing going, new workers getting organized. visa statuses.

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